Currently a classroom at the Kintampo Senior High School contains 120 students, instead of a normal capacity of 40 students required by the Ghana Education Service.
This unpleasant situation, according to Mr. Atta Amponsah, the Headmaster of the School, was seriously obstructing effective teaching and learning.
He has, therefore, appealed to philanthropists and non-governmental organizations, to come to the aid of the school, to meet its infrastructural shortfall for academic work to progress.
Mr. Amponsah told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview on Tuesday at Kintampo that congestion created in most of the classrooms made students uncomfortable to learn.
He said the student-population stood at 1,483, adding that enrolment kept on increasing, because the school was the only one serving the many communities situated along the Kintampo-Tamale Highway.
Mr. Amponsah said the school was also in urgent need of an Assembly Hall, ICT Laboratory, Teachers’ Bungalows and Sanitary facilities.
He said the perennial water problem in the school was a great worry to students and staff, adding that a borehole constructed by the Parent-Teacher Association had not been able to solve the problem.
